Process of producing ferrovanadium.



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EDGAR I. PRICE, OF NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, RY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO CENTRAL TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, TRUSTEE, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PROCESS OF PRODUCING FERROVANADIUM;

No. 875,208. Specification of Letters Patent. fatented Dec. 31, 1907. Application filed December 29, 1906. Serial No- 350,067. 1 5

may concern: and remove the contained silicon, preferably that'I, EDGAR F. Peron, a citi with an oxid of either iron or vanadium, so as 55 ed States, residing at Niagara to introduce no metallic impurities. of Niagara and State of I claim: 7 i

ented certain new and I. The process of producing r'err0vanain Processes of Prodiurn, which consists in providing a charge rn, of which the followcontaining vanadium oxi a source of iron to diuin, which consists in providing a charge.

containing vanadiumoxld, a source of iron and carbon, in the mlrnrnurn proportion re- 7 eciiic illustration of the process, I the charge,andwit drawing the products and"75 ibe the production of lowsilicon supplying the charge-mixture as require This furnace should be proin the zone of reduction and protecting the or' r'err.ovanadiurn.

5. The process of produc ng ierro-vana-. drum, Whlch consists in treating a vanadium har e-rnixture as requiret 1O 6. The process of producing ferro-vana- 875,208 diuni, which consists in treating a vanadium su 1fi d ore t pplying the charge-mixture as into an oxid, quired. oxid With a source of iron, carbon In testimony whereof, I alfix my signatl an a basic passing an electric current in presence of two witnesses. r 5 ough the barge, surrounding the zone of J EDGAR F. PRICE. re uction and protecting the electrode or Witnesses: r e ectrodes by a considerable body of the FREDK. M. BECKET, charge, tapping out the slag and the alloy,

DW. J. SCHNEIDER. 

